Tracy Strauss is the author of the 2019 memoir/self-help book, I Just Haven’t Met You Yet: Finding Empowerment in Dating, Love, and Life. In 2015, Bustle named Strauss one of eight women writers with advice to follow, alongside Anne Lamott, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath, Cheryl Strayed, and Joan Didion. That same year, Strauss was the Boston Writer’s Room Fellow in Nonfiction. More recently, she was the 2024 McLean Perspectives on Trauma Distinguished Speaker, where she educated clinicians on the parallels of writing trauma stories and climbing the “spiral staircase” of trauma recovery, as well as the persistence—the doggedness—that's essential for both journeys.

Strauss teaches writing at Harvard University and has appeared on national television as a writer, including a double episode series on “The Steve Harvey Show” in her role as a relationship blogger for HuffPost. Strauss has also been a guest on the inspirational radio talk show, “Get the Funk Out!” Her personal essays have appeared in New York, Newsweek, Glamour, Oprah, Ms., Salon, and other major publications, including WBUR’s Cognoscenti, for which one of her essays was named Best of 2019. Former essays editor for The Rumpus, she is the author of the former Ploughshares blog series “Writing Trauma: Notes of Transcendence.” She was a contributor for the 2022 collection Fast, Fierce Women, and will be a contributor for Fast, Forbidden Women in 2027.